Unlike the 30 or so dynasties that preceded it, the Greco-Macedonian regime has no ordinal number, but is called Ptolemaic after its founder, Ptolemy I, and the Ptolemies who descended from him ...

In this video, we explore the images that marked our understanding of the Earth seen from above, from ancient Roman Egyptian geographer Ptolemy's 'unknown lands' (150AD) to the latest Nasa's ...

“First of all, the others were much more specific. They were either about the Gnostic Gospels or Christian antisemitism or sex and politics. This one came after I was teaching about how ...

In it, he challenges centuries-old science based on the teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy, who thought the Earth was at rest at the center of the universe with other planets, including the sun ...

Less poetically, Ptolemy called it “a nebulous mass in the breast of [the constellation] Cancer. Today, we know that M44 contains about 1,000 gravitationally bound stars, and that it’s about ...

We’re actually heading back to Mondstadt this patch, seeing what’s up with Albedo and the Knights of Favonius, allowing us to take a break from the Natlan exploration that dropped last patch.

This collection includes a number of “Gospel”-type documents written for Gnostic Christian communities. The Gospel of Philip, for example, states that “the companion (koinōnos) of the ...

Part of a decree issued by Egyptian priests in honor of the pharaoh Ptolemy III. (Like the Rosetta Stone, the limestone carving features three scripts: hieroglyphs, demotic and Greek.) Image A ...

In it, he challenges centuries-old science based on the teachings of Aristotle and Ptolemy, who thought the Earth was at rest at the center of the universe with other planets, including the sun ...